Green leafy vegetables

Now that health is being discussed more often in our house because of my brother in law’s recent hospitalization, everyone is saying” we should really take good care of our health.”

We’ve also now keen into cooking more healthy food such as green leafy vegetable because these veggies are rich in iron which we all needed. Now we are bracing ourselves for dinner that is full of green veggies. And besides it could be our natural colon cleansers too. We know for a fact that there are many health benefits you can get in eating vegetables. Although the problem lies on how many recipes can we prepare for many kinds of green vegetable which abounds in the supermarket. If you know some please feel free to share it with me.

The following are the ones I can easily buy so mostly I will get them so if you know variety ways on how to cook them, let me know please.

1. Ampalaya tops
2. Kangkong
3. Pechay
4. Mustard
5. Malunggay leaves

Hubby's blood donation

For the love of his brother who was hospitalized and needed donors..

And even if he was tired too and had only 6 hour sleep the previous night, he donated blood (of course I made sure he really is fit and can do it) for his brother. I was there with him at the laboratory and I tell you it’s me who felt weak upon seeing the needle and the blood bag. It’s more than full of 5 custom shot glasses for sure, it’s 450cc if I am not mistaken.

He rested for few hours after that and back to taking care of his brother again.

Rain..we welcome thee

Manila was in its hottest temperature yesterday, the news said it was 37 point something. But the good news is, it rained last night and it cooled down, I was able to sleep without complaining of the heat. And it rained again tonight so it is way cooler to regular summer days.

When we were in the hospital, I noticed that a lot of old people are being rushed to the emergency room and most of the problems are stroke, high blood or having difficulty breathing and I heard a lot of doctors and nurses said probably it's because of the heat. Who needs warmer and montecristo cigars or anything like it at this kind of weather. I've been slurping ice cream almost everyday for one week now (and I am not a big fan of ice cream) because of the heat.

So rain, please rain some more, we need you and we welcome you here.

Sleepless,Chaotic,Hospital

Life has been chaotic for since yesterday actually it started 2 nights ago, when my brother in law texted us and asking for help, he had severe abdominal pain and we had to bring him to hospital, initial findings was appendix but an ultrasound ruled it out. They found out that he had  internal bleeding and the possible cause was the pain reliever he's been taking for the tootache. It was also the cause of the abdominal pain and vomiting. He had blood transfusion already and we are hoping he will be recharge today.

It was nerve wracking when they couldn't find what's wrong at first, good thing it was not that serious and life threatening like asbestos mesothelioma cases that is so rampant today.

I'm home for the moment to have some rest, been absent from the office since yesterday, am exhausted and I haven't had a proper sleep. Rudolf is also resting because he will be giving blood later.

It's hard but we are keeping on. A prayer for us will mean a lot. Thanks everyone!

beautiful wedding favors

I'm in the wedding mood today :) probably because we just had our 4th wedding anniversary and as usual that brought me back to thousand of memories during our wedding. Our wedding preparation, our wedding vows, our rings and all. of course I love everything about our wedding, love your own siempre. I love our invitations which I personally laid out and wrote all the Tagalog wordings. And now that a friend is getting married soon, I am into look out of new and beautiful wedding favors. I saw this and I said oh I would have love this for my wedding because I am a certified coffee addict :)

and these bamboo inspired favors are nice too! perfect for our Filipiniana theme wedding :)

Hongkong Disneyland

I'm actually dreaming of going here.

We've been to Hongkong last year but we did not visit the Disneyland, first because we have not enough funds, second our visit was a ministry visit and we only have few hours free for leisure.

But this year, I've already booked for us a one way ticket to Hongkong on September. An airfare ticket from Cebu Pacific that is almost free. P72.00 for both of us. The thing is we don't have ticket going back to Manila yet. At least I'm one step closer to that dream.

I've also looked into Disney World hotels and that's another big dream for us. You see, an overnight stay in the Hong Kong Disneyland hotel will cost us P14,700.00 and that's super expensive for us. But who knows? I might get a cheaper rate or someone out there with a good heart might gift us with that right? September is still 4 months to go and a lot can still happen.

Anywyas, for those planning to go there, here is the arte I got from their website :

Room Rates (January 2010 - March 2011)

Hong Kong Disneyland Hotel
Find the dates and accommodations that fit your family's needs as you experience the Disney heritage in this magical hotel.

Room Type	Value	Regular	Peak
Garden View	HK$1,800	HK$2,100	HK$2,400
Sea View	HK$1,900	HK$2,200	HK$2,600
Sea View with Balcony	HK$2,100	HK$2,400	HK$2,900
Fantasia Room	HK$2,400	HK$2,700	HK$3,200
Kingdom Club Room	HK$2,900	HK$3,200	HK$3,800
Kingdom Suite	HK$6,000	HK$6,000	HK$6,500
Dream on Raquel..after all..dreaming is free!

4th Anniversdary picture at Mandarin Hotel

That's our sort of 4th anniversary picture :) taken yesterday at the Mandarin Hotel.

Nope, we didn't have anniversary celebration  but I was there for work and hubby came to just see me and have lunch there.

The stressful week is finally over and thank God it's weekend. I can sleep all day tomorrow and rest. For next week will be another stressful week with all the work I left at the office for two days. This afternoon, I actually thought if I can do sales because of the product launch that we did in Mandarin, although I do not have backround in marketing and sales but if I learn how to talk and quote I think I'll be bale to do it. I'll see if I can learn from insurance quote I read and do the same for the products that we launched today and yesterday.

Wow..been talking about work again here while I should be resting.

Have a nice weekend everyone!

Headache

I have been silently wishing for the last two years that I should have studied Law way back in college. It was actually a dream when I was growing up but back then I though it was expensive to go into Law school and we we’re not even sure the if I can go to college or not. But I really wished I did pursue that.

Because right now at work I am swamped with loads of court cases and just reading them gives me major headache everyday.

I even attempted to see if I can get an online degree with regards to becoming a lawyer not that I can afford it now but who knows.

Ah..the thick folders in my table are waiting for me and I don’t even want to open them.

Too many headache on our special day.

4 years ago

and still

GOD'S BEST GIFT TO ME EVER. Happy 4th mahal!!

I. AM. OLD.

I feel old.

Oh well, I'm old. or I am getting old.

The signs? the fact that I am always on the look out of best anti wrinkle face cream, best anti-aging cream and many more kind of cream means I am old.

My body clock is telling me I won't be able to conceive anymore. I might but I am already on the high risk if ever. But I would still welcome it whatever risks it maybe. The question is will I have or will I not get pregnant?

I know it's becoming frustrating to read about my rants on pregnancy issues here but please bear with me. This is where I let out all those frustrations.

Again, I am not losing hope. I don't want to lose hope. And I put my HOPE in GOD because isn't it true that ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE TO HIM?

Photobirth announcement

How I wish I am making one for myself but sorry I am not. I am dreaming wide awake of how am I gonna announce to my world if ever I get pregnant soon and oh I have loads of ideas for the photo birth announcements also, and it won't get hurt to order also if moms don't have the luxury of time to DIY their announcement. Although here in my place it is uncommon to send photobirth announcement, in fact I have never received any from my friends so I would love to do that when I get pregnant. Anyways, do you do pregnancy announcement too? hehe! just curious because if ever I want to do that too :)

Below are images of photobirth announcement from naptimecards.com.
Enjoy them and help me pray I'll do one soon for me please :)

Smart Parenting

Weird me.

• I recently chanced upon the smart parenting website and I thought I wanted to register as a full member. BUT I AM NOT A PARENT YET.

• I wanted to register because I want to join their recent contest where you can win a big tote bag for moms (obviously to carry all the baby stuff you need when you go out). BUT THEN AGAIN I DO NOT HAVE A KID YET.

Funny me.

I realized though that I frequent some mom blogs and some parenting sites too which I know is not bad because I got to learn something which I share to my friends who have kids already. So I guess it’s not weird huh?

But I think I should visit and read more sites and gather more info on how to become pregnant or how to effectively lose weight or what diet pills are safe to be taken or better yet how to get rich quick.

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It’s only Wednesday and I am dead tired of office work already. I wish it’s Friday na tomorrow.